I do know what you mean. My machine also has an 58 min washprogram and it raises the temp to 65 c and 149 f. I dont think for one minute what I put in there. When i had 14 people for my moms birthday and 12 staying over that were the program I used exclusively. I put realy dirtystuff in there and I did almost not have any washing up to do when I went to bed. With my old machine I would have been doing load after load the next day to not now I love that and to have a clean kitchen. I use cascade coplete or platinum for my water they are the best and for delicate stuff finnish gel.

So happy that your workload has lightened with these modern appliences.

Love Björn

Mama, get yourself some parchment paper. It's great stuff to line pans with for things like leaky sweet potatoes. Just toss the crusty paper and, most of the time, the pan can be put away without having to be washed. (I just scrub sweet potatoes & baking potatoes and rub them with cooking oil to bake. I stopped foil wrapping them after I learned that trick.)

I think we have the same DW, Mama. Or nearly the same. Mine doesn't work quite as good as yours (probably water difference because my water is moderately hard.). I'm happy with it because it works about 1000% better than the old Maytag and is a whole lot more quiet.

Hi Mama,

Pleased to hear you are having such good luck with your new dishwasher!

Mine is similar to yours, but a Gold Series model. The cycles sound familiar, so they might be just about the same machine.

I too get clean dishes. I'm so happy and it seems happy to clean well each time. Never a whoopsie dirty dish left behind. It's the best dishwasher I've ever had.

I normally use the Heavy or Normal cycle with Hi-Temp activated even though the One Hour cycle uses gobs more water than these two cycles and seems to do a great job cleaning.

The reason being, on my dishwasher, the One Hour cycle does not heat the water. I do purge the water line to bring hottest hot water to the kitchen sink, but the water in the line cools before a water change in the dw. I can get away with it once in a while in the summer since my water lines run through my attic and it's mega hot up in the attic this time of year. But in the other times of the year, I can't really use the One Hour cycle unless I stand at the kitchen sink and turn on the tap to full hot and repeatedly purge the long run from the water heater line prior to each water change, lest I will wash dishes in cool to cold water. Just a FYI in case your new dw is similar to how mine operates.

Ci_Lantro now why did I never think of using parchment. Thank you, I'll remember that and I bake sweet potatoes frequently. Cool that we have the same dishwasher and my water is very soft city water so maybe that is the difference.

Sea Sea I haven't thought to check

I dont know if my heater activates on the one hour cycle. I purge a few times using the one hour until the main wash cycle fills up but generally I'm in the kitchen anyway not like I'm actually babysitting lol. I did check the wash temp on this cycle but can't remember what it was. I'm sure though that it was an acceptable temp IMO or I wouldn't use it...you know my attraction to hot water. Lol. I'm gonna have to check the temp again now or I won't stop wondering. Haha.

Bjorn, yes I remember when you bought your newer dishwasher, actually I think I remember when you were trying to decide which machine and how a quick cycle was important since you host large gatherings. Looks like this turned out to be very good choices for both of us. I don't do much entertaining but with a family of five and my two sons often visiting and the fact I cook every-single-day-of-my-life (hahaha) I do really need the quick cycle and I know you cook just as much for a lot of folks.

Thanks everyone!!!